Photo: Sara Bonisteel
Halloween isn't the only way to get chocolate during this last weekend in October.
Slashfood got a golden ticket to the expo of sweet temptations, pastry chefs, chocolatiers and chocolate fashions. Click on the gallery for our coverage.
The 12th annual Chocolate Show will be in New York from Oct 30 to Nov. 1. For more information on the chocolate show and ticket sales, visit
www.chocolateshow.com.
Our photos after the jump.
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Chocolate Show 2009
Sweetriot representatives urge Chocolate Show attendees to start a sweet movement to fix the world.
Sara Bonisteel
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Sweetriot representatives urge Chocolate Show attendees to start a sweet movement to fix the world.
Sara Bonisteel
FIKA Choklad offers chocolate truffles by master chocolatier, Hakan Martensson.
Sara Bonisteel
Moonstruck Chocolates, with their "Ocumerian Truffle," is named one of the "2009 Top Ten Chocolatiers."
Sara Bonisteel
Norman Love Confections apply a creative vision to its chocolates.
Sara Bonisteel
Chocolate truffles get an art deco appeal.
Sara Bonisteel
Jer's Handmade Chocolates plays on the classic peanut butter-chocolate combination in their Peanut Butter Bar.
Sara Bonisteel
Jacques' signature piece --crushed candied almonds in dark chocolate.
Sara Bonisteel
Guittard's white chocolate rounds make an appearance in a predominantly milk and dark chocolate showing.
Sara Bonisteel
Feeding into the bacon trend, the "Sizzling Bacon Bar" Christopher Michael Chocolates blends Venezuelan milk chocolate with real bacon, popping candy and smoked sea salt.
Sara Bonisteel
One can never have too many chocolate samples.
Sara Bonisteel